Dendrochronology reading fill blanks Re-learning 59
In text below some words are missing. select words from the box below to the appropriate place in the text.
148. exercise
| season | past | drought |
A bonus of dendrochronology is that the width and substructure of each ring reflect the amount of rain and the ………………… at which the rain fell during that particular year. Thus, tree ring studies also allow one to reconstruct the …………………….. climate, e.g. a series of wide rings means a very wet period, and a series of narrow rings means a …………………….
149. exercise
| strive | focus | competent | conveying | slave |
Learning to write well in college means learning ( or re-learning) how to write plainly and clearly. Now that doesn’t mean that plainness is the only good style, or that you should become a ………………….. to spare, unadorned writing.
Formality and ornateness have their place, and in ……………….. hands complexity can carry us on a dizzying, breathtaking journey. But most students, most of the time, should …………………….. to be sensibly simple, to develop a baseline style of short words, active verbs, and relatively simple sentences …………………………….. clear actions or identities. It’s faster, it makes arguments easier to follow, it increases the chances a busy reader will bother to pay attention, and it lets you …………………… more attention on your moments of rhetorical flourish, which I do not advise abandoning altogether.
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